Help - Low FPS with monitor

EölMPK

Hey guys, anyone have an idea about what can make my laptop lose a lot of FPS while playing in a monitor? While using the laptop's monitor, I can get 30+ fps, but when I play with my monitor it goes down to 10. I tryed to switch the resolution to a lower one, and I was able to get it to 20 fps but it's still bad, and my game's image is horrible with that.

Do anyone have any tip to help me with that? Or is it something impossible?

My laptop is an asus i7 8gb ram and a geforce 630M.
My monitor is a Samsung widescreen 24'' HD

Thank you very much.

Bouvin

Resolution.

When outputting to the monitor through the HDMI you're increaseing the resolution the video card has to output to, so taxing the graphics card a lot more.

I suggest installing a program like MSI Afterburner and comparing vid card usage and heat on laptop vs. external monitor.

If it doesn't seem that the video card works harder on External monitor it could be another issue.

Also, try turning VSYNC on/off to see if that helps.

EölMPK

Bouvin wrote: »

Resolution.

When outputting to the monitor through the HDMI you're increaseing the resolution the video card has to output to, so taxing the graphics card a lot more.

I suggest installing a program like MSI Afterburner and comparing vid card usage and heat on laptop vs. external monitor.

If it doesn't seem that the video card works harder on External monitor it could be another issue.

Also, try turning VSYNC on/off to see if that helps.

Hi! Ty for helping!
I will try this, I'm was so frustrated this weekend that I avoid using that laptop!

Do you know if there is a way to play with the laptop's resolution in the external monitor, without stretching the image? When I select the fullscreen mode and manually set the same resolution of the laptop, the FPS raise a little, but the game image looks like a blurry nightmare

Thanks!

ZOS_GaryA

Hey there @Grunge,

This is going to be based on the standard resolution of the monitor (16:9, 16:10, 4:3). Could you please let us know what the resolution of your monitor is, as well as the resolution of the laptop's monitor?

EölMPK

ZOS_GaryA wrote: »

Hey there @Grunge,

This is going to be based on the standard resolution of the monitor (16:9, 16:10, 4:3). Could you please let us know what the resolution of your monitor is, as well as the resolution of the laptop's monitor?

Hello GaryA,

My monitor resolution is 1920 x 1080.
My laptop's max resolution is 1366 x 768.

I'm using a HDMI cable to connect them.

Thank you very much!

ZOS_GaryA

Hey there @Grunge,

Thank ya!

For the monitor, we'd recommend settings it to 1280x720 and see if that helps with this issue. This effectively halves the resolution, but maintains the same aspect ratio, so the stretching issue won't occur. This is also close to the laptop's native resolution, so the performance shouldn't take a huge hit.

If you notice the same issues at 1280x720, let us know and we'll be happy to make some alternate recommendations!

EölMPK

ZOS_GaryA wrote: »

Hey there @Grunge,

Thank ya!

For the monitor, we'd recommend settings it to 1280x720 and see if that helps with this issue. This effectively halves the resolution, but maintains the same aspect ratio, so the stretching issue won't occur. This is also close to the laptop's native resolution, so the performance shouldn't take a huge hit.

If you notice the same issues at 1280x720, let us know and we'll be happy to make some alternate recommendations!

Thanks again GaryA!

I will test this later when I get home and let you know, best regards!

ZOS_GaryA

Thanks! We'll go ahead and continue to assist you in this thread since it's more specific to the issue.

EölMPK

Guys, just want to say that I tried all the things, and there is the result:

There is absolutely no way of playing the game with my laptop with an external monitor in 1080p. Changing the game resolution makes it as ugly as a starving troll. Changing the monitor resolution (lowering) makes my desktop horrible too, I just can't stand looking at giant icons, or the black frames around the screen when centralizing the image.
So, now I'm playing in windowed mode, and I sized the game window based on the laptop screen size.
That way, I keep my desktop the way I like it, and I'm playing the game with 30-32 FPS.

Unfortunately, this is the only way without buying a new PC

Thanks a lot for your help guys!

EölMPK

@ZOS_GaryA Just want to point a thing here, the main problem was the directx!
I thought that dx9 will perform better, but after I changed to dx11 my fps doubled!
Now I'm playing at 50-55 fps in the laptop's monitor, and with 30-35 fps with the external one (without having to reduce resolution or play with a little windowed mode)

gokhanuzmez

Grunge wrote: »

@ZOS_GaryA Just want to point a thing here, the main problem was the directx!
I thought that dx9 will perform better, but after I changed to dx11 my fps doubled!
Now I'm playing at 50-55 fps in the laptop's monitor, and with 30-35 fps with the external one (without having to reduce resolution or play with a little windowed mode)

Where is the Directx Settings ?

I get about 80-100 fps on my laptop screen, then I HDMI connect to my TV (30"), it keeps the 1920 res. but drops to FPS to 30 which is playable. Then I turn V-sync on and it keeps the FPS on 60. No less no more until you go more than 50 people Cyrodiil battles. Then it goes all to way to 20s.

Is there a solution to this? I am using Nvidia Driver Optimum settings, lowerd the shadows.

Thank You

Belrim

You can change graphics mode by fiddling with the user settings file..

X:\Users\User\Documents\Elder Scrolls Online\liveeu\UserSettings.txt
SET GraphicsDriver.7 "D3D11"

change that to "D3D9" and give it a try.

Have not seen significant difference in performance to direction or another on my comps. But thats only a handfull of computers in a sea of millions of different builds.